The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is composed in the form of a triptych, with the two small side panels framing and enclosing the main central episode of the novel.

This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.

Thomas describes the episode as significant in the history of FGM because it made clear that its apparent victims were in fact its central actors.

It can range from a casual item for comic effect, such as in an episode titled The Seance of the 1950s TV sitcom I Love Lucy, where Lucy dabbles in numerology, to a central element of the storyline, such as the movie π, in which the protagonist meets a numerologist searching for hidden numerical patterns in the Torah.

The episode " Bart the Lover " was the first episode to give Krabappel a central role, and also to expand her character and personality.

Lovejoy becomes the central character in the episode " In Marge We Trust ".

Howerd was central to most of the gags and he started each episode with a prologue — a " to camera " piece that was seldom concluded and rarely had anything to do with the episode's plot.

A new La Niña episode developed quite quickly in the eastern and central tropical Pacific in mid-2010, and lasted until early 2011.

An episode of the television series First Wave featured a Wiccan with a Book of Shadows that contained the secret to identifying the alien infiltrators which were the central antagonistic force of the show.

He first makes a cameo in the episode " The Cat " ( in which he is briefly voiced by David Warner ), before appearing as a central figure in the " Six Forgotten Warriors " story arc, in which he turns his son into this show's version of Electro.

Her triumph as Mahishasura Mardini, Slayer of the buffalo Demon is a central episode of the scripture Devi Mahatmya.

Jane Espenson has explained how scripts came together for Mutant Enemy Productions series Buffy, Angel and Firefly: a meeting was held and an idea was floated ( generally by Whedon ) and the writers brainstormed to develop the central theme of the episode and the character development.

The most famous episode in the history of the Swiss Guards was their defence of the Tuileries Palace in central Paris during the French Revolution.

He was also made the central subject of most of the jokes on the episode of Have I Got News for You which came on the week after his arrest, which he was guest presenting.

Its central episode is the Battle of Bannockburn.

A central character, Barrie appeared as Rimmer in almost every episode of the series, absent only for a brief period during series 7.

In the episode " Sibling Tsunami " of the animated series My Life as a Teenage Robot, when asked what's wrong, XJ-7, a chronically depressed robot character replied, " The usual, life, the universe, everything " a reference not only to Marvin, but the " Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything " a central tenet of the series ' storyline ( as well as the title of the third book ).

In the episode, the central characters visit Los Angeles, where a water-skiing Fonzie ( Henry Winkler ), answers a challenge to his bravery by wearing swim trunks and his trademark leather jacket, and jumping over a confined shark.

The episode ends with a crystal skull that is central to the plot of the episode modelled to reveal what someone would look like with skin and muscle added to that skull.

His struggle to cope with his captivity and assimilation is a central element of the episode " Family.

Soon afterwards the piano and orchestra launch into a stormy development of the theme before coming to the central episode ( in D major ).

The central episode is brisk and begins with the full orchestra before yet another quiet section intervenes ; then the piano is integrated into the orchestral effect to repeat the theme of the central episode.

Regional peasantry supplied the city with food and raw materials, while the craftsmen in the city produced handicrafts, most of whom lived by the central square Stortorget or by the oldest two streets in Stockholm, the names of which still reflects their trade: Köpmangatan (" Merchant's Street ") and Skomakargatan (" Shoemaker's Street ") in the central part of the city.

Given the size of Merchant's capital outlay — including construction in Boswell of the world's largest tipple, a central business district and a high school — the company planned big things for Boswell.

The central hall of a Medieval Merchant's House | restored 13th-century house, originally built with the profits from European trade

After his arrival in the United States, he wrote a novel about convict life called Moondyne: An Australian Tale, whose central character was called Moondyne Joe.

Bean Bunny first appeared as the central character of the 1986 television special The Tale of the Bunny Picnic.

In what is often called the world's first novel, the Genji Monogatari ( Tale of Genji ), which dates back to around the eighth century AD, eroticism is treated as a central part of the aesthetic life of the nobility.

Trimbole is a central character in the drama series Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, a mini-series on the Nine Network.

Sydney Carton is a central character in the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

Peter Lake is the central character of Winter's Tale.

Ukifune plays the central role in the last part of The Tale of Genji.

She is one of the two central characters in The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan ( 1905 ).

Why, in the first place, call himself a liberal if he is against laissez-faire and favors an authoritarian central government with womb-to-tomb controls over everybody??

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

An advantage of being exposed to such specificity about an important and recurring feature of social reality is that it can be taken advantage of by the reader to examine covert as well as overt resonances within himself, resonances triggered by explicit symbols clustering around the central figure of the Jew.

It is obvious that the historian who seeks to recapture the ideas that have motivated human behavior throughout a given period will find the art and literature of that age one of his central and major concerns, by no means a mere supplement or adjunct of significant historical research.

There is a trend to packaging meat at a central source, freezing it, and shipping it to outlying stores, where meat cutters will not be required.

The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen.

One matter of concern to the complete effectiveness of pool operations is the lack of adequate central garage facilities.

You can install it yourself -- this is a central system that will cool every part of your house.

Best of all, central air conditioning is something you can afford.

No matter what style your home is, ranch, two-story, Colonial or contemporary, central air conditioning is easily installed.

Its oil for heating is metered monthly to each home from a line that starts at a central storage point.

The idea of a central tank with lines to each house is not in itself a novelty.

On this first venture the central storage is 20,000 gallons, in two tanks, or an average of 400 gallons for each of the 50 homes.

The central storage is near a main artery quite easy to reach with large transports on a short crescent swing, with fewer trucks in the residential streets.

The measured brightness temperature is a good approximation to the brightness temperature at the center of the lunar disk because of the narrow antenna beam and because the temperature distribution over the central portion of the moon's disk is nearly uniform.

Furthermore, conditioned reactions are fundamentally altered when the hypothalamic sympathetic reactivity is augmented beyond a critical level, and several types of behavioral changes probably related to the degree of central autonomic `` tuning '' are observed.

It has further been shown that: ( 1 ) an experimental neurosis in its initial stages is associated with a reversible shift in the central autonomic balance ; ;

And in the economy of the book it is not peripheral but central.

This movement of industry away from the central cities is not so catastrophically new as some prophets seem to believe.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.